XY128

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XY128

XY128   EP927 ライバル決戦！サトシゲッコウガVSメガジュカイン！！ Decisive Rival Battle! Satoshi Gekkouga VS Mega Jukain!!

First broadcast Japan July 28, 2016 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening XY&Z Ending プニちゃんのうた

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 面出明美 Akemi Omode Storyboard 志村錠児 Jōji Shimura Assistant director 浅利藤彰 Fujiaki Asari Animation directors 大橋藍人 Aito Ōhashi 志村泉 Izumi Shimura No additional credits are available at this time.

Screenshots on Filb.de Preview thread on BMGf Closed Original review thread on BMGf

(Japanese: ライバル決戦！サトシゲッコウガVSメガジュカイン！！ Decisive Rival Battle! Satoshi Gekkouga VS Mega Jukain!!) is the 128th episode of the XY series, and the 927th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on July 28, 2016.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Plot

This plot summary is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this plot summary to add missing sections and complete it.

Major events

• Sawyer's Shelgon is revealed to have evolved into Salamence.
• The Full Battle between Ash and Sawyer ends in Ash's victory, advancing him to the finals to face Alain.

For a list of all major events in the animated series, please see the history page.

Characters

Humans

Pokémon Quiz

• Ash
• Serena
• Clemont
• Bonnie
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Sycamore
• Sawyer
• Alain
• Tierno
• Trevor
• Shauna
• Diantha
• Malva
• Announcer
• Referee

Pokémon

Pokémon Quiz: Mega Sceptile (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Dedenne (Clemont's)
• Greninja (Ash's; Ash-Greninja)
• Goodra (Ash's)
• Noivern (Ash's)
• Chespin (Clemont's)
• Sceptile (Sawyer's; Mega Sceptile)
• Salamence (Sawyer's)
• Slurpuff (Sawyer's)
• Aegislash (Sawyer's)

Trivia

File:Title Card XY Ash V2.png

The title card segment focuses on Ash for this episode

• Poké TV: "Pokemon Unbelievable" focusing on some of Ash's, Clemont's, and Serena's Pokémon, along with Sawyer's Mega Sceptile.
• Serena, Bonnie, Clemont's Chespin, and Mairin narrate the preview for the next episode.
• This episode marks the first time Ash has ever gotten into the finals of a Pokémon League Conference.
• XY&Z is used as an insert song during Ash's battle against Sawyer, when Mega Sceptile and Ash-Greninja are battling each other.
• This episode marks the first time Goodra is knocked out during a battle since its capture.

Errors

• After Pikachu makes contact with Aegislash's King's Shield, the animation of Pikachu's Attack stat dropping moved up instead of down, making it appear that the stat was being raised instead of dropping.
• When Pikachu returns to Ash after defeating Aegislash, his bruises from the battle disappear.
• When Slurpuff uses Cotton Guard, the animation that showed her Defense stat drastically raising was blue instead of red. Red indicates a stat increase while blue shows a stat decrease.
• When Ash commands Greninja to use Cut to counter Sceptile's Leaf Blade, the scoreboard displays Ash's Noivern and Sawyer's Salamence as the two who are currently battling.
• When Mega Sceptile uses Frenzy Plant on Ash-Greninja, Greninja's giant shuriken is coloured dark blue like the stars on its legs instead of light blue for a few frames as it falls.
• Before Ash has Greninja use Cut against Mega Sceptile's Frenzy Plant, Ash's Pikachu is shown standing next to Ash, but is also shown on the right-hand side where Ash placed him after being defeated previously.

In other languages

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